Wuthering Heights

                     Wuthering Heights is a classic tale of possessive and thwarted passion, one of the forerunners of
                     today's soap operas and romance novels. The tempestuous and mythic story of Catherine
                     Earnshaw, the precocious daughter of the house, and the ruggedly handsome, uncultured foundling
                     her father brings home and names Heathcliff, is played out against the backdrop of English moors no
                     less wild and raw than the love they develop for one another. Brought together as children,
                     Catherine and Heathcliff quickly become attached to each other. As they grow older, their
                     companionship turns into obsession. Family, class, and fate work cruelly against them, as do their
                     own jealous and volatile natures, and much of their lives is spent in revenge and frustration. Yet there
                     is something magnificent about the depth and intensity of their love.
 

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